Battle of Taku Forts (1859)

Second Battle of Taku Forts
	Part of the Second Opium War
	; The Taku Forts
Date	24-26 June 1859
Location	Taku Forts, Hai River, China
Result	Chinese victory
Belligerents
British Empire; French Empire; United States	Qing China
Commanders and leaders
James Hope (WIA); Josiah Tattnall III	Sengge Rinchen
Strength
Britain:; 1,160 (on land); 11 gunboats; 4 steam ships	4,000; 60 guns; 6 forts
Casualties and losses
Britain:; 3 gunboats sunk; 3 gunboats grounded; 81 killed; 345 wounded; France:; 12 killed; 23 wounded; United States:; 1 killed; 1 wounded; 1 launch damaged	32 killed or wounded

The Second Battle of Taku Forts (Chinese: 第二次大沽口之戰) was a failed Anglo-French attempt to seize the Taku Forts along the Hai River in Tianjin, China, in June 1859 during the Second Opium War. A chartered American steamship arrived on scene and assisted the French and British in their attempted suppression of the forts.

^ ^a ^b ^c Janin, Hunt (1999). The India-China Opium Trade in the Nineteenth Century. McFarland. p. 126–127. ISBN 0-7864-0715-8.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "The Second Battle of the Taku Forts". unitedcn.com (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2010-09-15.
^ ^a ^b Raugh, Harold E. (2004). The Victorians at War, 1815-1914: An Encyclopedia of British Military History. ABC-CLIO. p. 100. ISBN 1-57607-925-2.

[hunt-1] Janin, Hunt (1999). The India-China Opium Trade in the Nineteenth Century. McFarland. p. 126–127. ISBN 0-7864-0715-8.

[第二次大沽口之战-2] "The Second Battle of the Taku Forts". unitedcn.com (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2010-09-15.

[raugh-3] Raugh, Harold E. (2004). The Victorians at War, 1815-1914: An Encyclopedia of British Military History. ABC-CLIO. p. 100. ISBN 1-57607-925-2.

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